Websites with Various Resources:


Adams County School District 14 in Colorado has a wide variety of materials and activities arranged by theme. Be sure to look at the listing in the navigation bar on the left hand side. Theme activities include Smart Board activities.
Go to: http://sites.google.com/site/storytownsecondgrade/Home

Agatha Lee's Class in Belle Terre School has PowerPoint presentations for robust vocabulary words. There are 2 links on the left navigation bar of her home page. http://www.flaglerschools.com/schools/btes/teachers/LeeA/4016
Mrs. Sweeney at West End Elementary has shared her resources. Click on StoryTown in the navigation bar on the left side of her website: &NodeID=464

The site with grade 2 resources gathered by Dr. Elder at Lakewood Elementary includes a wide variety of materials and activities:http://www.pcboe.net/les/elderweb/Second%20Grade.htm


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Gr. 2 Theme 1: Count on Me

Vowels* Short A
Inflections (s, es, d, ed, ing)
Characters
  • Characters - Click on the different parts to create a character, then write a sentence about the character you created.
Sentence, Questions, Sentence Parts

Gr. 2 Theme 2: Doing Our Best

=Vowels See Vowels Above r-controlled Vowels
Inflections- See Inflections Above Compound Words
Plot Sebastian Swan - read stories online and then answer questions Predictions These are worksheets
  • And Then... - Look at each picture, and then underline the sentence that tells what will probably happen next.
  • End the Story - Cut out the pictures on the bottom of the page. Decide which picture goes with each story. Paste the pictures on the page. Color the pictures.
  • What Will Happen Next? - Look at each picture. Draw what you think will happen next
Nouns, Plural Nouns, Proper Nouns
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Gr. 2 Theme 3: Changing Times

=Diagraphs
  • Review Phonemes- Phonics-Word Builder – Three dozen different combining sound activities are available in the following categories; abc’s, short vowels, long vowels, other vowels, beginning consonants and final consonants. Word parts are read individually, blended, and then followed by a sentence accompanied by an illustration. Ignore the registration screen that pops up, select Maybe Later to go directly to the activity.
  • Poem Pack - Ten colorful poems with animation, audio and activities - featuring Daisy the snail, the toad and the goat, and friends. Read it, Hear it, search for sounds, and find words concentrating on vowel blends.
  • See 'N Spell - Students click and drag letters into the box to spell the words that correspond to the pictures. A very good activity with many skills such as plurals, long vowels, short vowels, blends and digraphs.
  • Blending Dragon - Direct your dragon with the mouse and catch the globes with real words. Choose the phoneme that you wish to work with
  • Word Families - select the word family to practice and select the correct beginning consonant to match the pictures
  • Consonant Blends - find the blend that matches the picture
  • Beginning Consonant Digraphs - select the correct digraph
  • Paw Park: Sassy Seals - Match beginning sounds
  • Ending consonant practice - for all letters
  • Ending Digraphs - select the correct digraph ending
Long E/Y
Author's Purpose
Fiction/Non-Fiction Abbreviations
Possessive Nouns
r- controlled Vowels see above Pronouns
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Gr. 2 Theme 4: Dream Big

=Diagraphs and Suffixes
Short vowels- See Vowels Dipthongs
r-controlled vowels- See r-controlled vowels Setting
Locate Information Adjectives
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Gr. 2 Theme 5: Better Together

=Vowel Dipthongs- See Dipthongs Abbreviations- See Abbreviations r-controlled Vowels- See r-controlled vowels Prefixes
Contractions
Action Verbs
Subject and Verb agreement
Past Tense Verb
Forms of Be
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Gr. 2 Theme 6: Seek and Find

=Prefixes and Suffixes
Inflections Irregular Verbs
Helping Verbs
Contractions